Roger Barton

Selected works around attention, boredom and technological touch.

Fragile copper sculptures are grown onto wax moulds using electrolysis, forming thin, light foils that can be torn, folded, crushed and translated into images, frames and prints.

Fine Art Portfolio / Selected works 2025-2026
Installation view of Hyperfixated Awakening and Comforting Boredom at ZHdK
Installation view, 1st Year Master Open Critique, 2026, group exhibition at ZHdK
01 / 04
Hyperfixated Awakening (Knights), framed copper sculpture photograph
Installed view
Detail view of Hyperfixated Awakening frame and damaged surface
Detail view
02 / 04
Comforting Boredom illuminated left view
Illuminated left view
Comforting Boredom illuminated right view
Illuminated right view
Comforting Boredom concealed view without illumination
Concealed view
Interior view of copper forms inside Comforting Boredom
Interior view
Detail of unframed grown copper hand sculpture
Detail view
Dark detail of unframed grown copper fingers
Detail view
03 / 04
Cracked Lips grown copper and human hair sculpture
04 / 04
Decay intaglio print in a commercial frame
Framed view
Detail of Decay intaglio print
Detail view

Earlier projects

Swissloop

295 x 137 x 112 cm. Engineering prototype and group project at ETH Zurich. Swissloop Season 2022 aimed at breaking into high-speed levitating cargo transportation through experimentation with contactless propulsion systems. Contributed as lead electrical engineer in a team of 30 students.

2022

Space Fighter

Video game, independent work. Developed to envision a career in game design, attaining 50,000 downloads.

2017